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Will Visual Studio 2008 be supported by new .NET 4 from the get go?
I'm particularly interested in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and the parallel task library, which I would use immediately.
Is it worth upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 when it comes out?
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VS 2008 enables you to build applications that target multiple versions of the . Net Framework. This means you can use VS 2008 to open, edit and build existing . NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 applications (including ASP.NET 2.0 applications using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0), and continue to deploy these application on .
As previously announced, starting January 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for . NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.
Visit visualstudio.com to get the most up-to-date version of Visual Studio. Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support, or hotfixes when support ends on April 10, 2018, for the following products: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (All editions)
Select Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features. Select Turn Windows features on or off. If not already installed, select Microsoft . NET Framework and click OK.
No. VS2008 will not be able to target .NET 4.0:
Visual Studio 2010 supports .NET 4 and earlier projects. Visual Studio 2008 supports .NET 3.5SP1 projects.
Hope this helps,
Polita Paulus
Developer Division
Microsoft
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While you can't use .NET 4.0 itself from VS2008, if you're interested in the Parallel Extensions stuff, you could download the Reactive Framework (formerly LINQ to Rx) which I believe contains at least a lot of Parallel Extensions backported to .NET 3.5 SP1.
From the Release Notes, it includes:
System.Threading, backport of Parallel Extensions for .NET 4 to .NET 3.5 SP1
- Task for executing asynchronous operations.
- Concurrent Collections such as ConcurrentStack, ConcurentQueue ad ConcurrentDictionary.
- PLINQ for writing parallel queries.
- addition Threading operations such as Barrier,SpinLock and SpinWait.
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